Obsidian Flavored Markdown Skill

This skill enables skills-compatible agents to create and edit valid Obsidian Flavored Markdown, including all Obsidian-specific syntax extensions.

Overview

Obsidian uses a combination of Markdown flavors:

CommonMark
GitHub Flavored Markdown
LaTeX for math
Obsidian-specific extensions (wikilinks, callouts, embeds, etc.)

Basic Formatting

Paragraphs and Line Breaks

This is a paragraph.

This is another paragraph (blank line between creates separate paragraphs).

For a line break within a paragraph, add two spaces at the end  
or use Shift+Enter.
`### Headings`
# Heading 1
## Heading 2
### Heading 3
#### Heading 4
##### Heading 5
###### Heading 6

Text Formatting

Style

Syntax

Example

Output

Bold

**text** or __text__

**Bold**

Bold

Italic

*text* or _text_

*Italic*

Italic

Bold + Italic

***text***

***Both***

Both

Strikethrough

~~text~~

~~Striked~~

Striked

Highlight

==text==

==Highlighted==

==Highlighted==

Inline code

code

Escaping Formatting

Use backslash to escape special characters:

LHOST_PH_1

Common characters to escape: \*, \_, \#, \``, |, ~`

Internal Links (Wikilinks)

Basic Links

LHOST_PH_2

Note: Spaces must be URL-encoded as %20 in Markdown links.

Embeds

Embed Notes

__LHOST_PH_3__query tag:#project status:done LHOST_PH_4

Callouts

Basic Callout

LHOST_PH_5

Supported Callout Types

Type

Aliases

Description

note

Blue, pencil icon

abstract

summary, tldr

Teal, clipboard icon

info

Blue, info icon

todo

Blue, checkbox icon

tip

hint, important

Cyan, flame icon

success

check, done

Green, checkmark icon

question

help, faq

Yellow, question mark

warning

caution, attention

Orange, warning icon

failure

fail, missing

Red, X icon

danger

error

Red, zap icon

bug

Red, bug icon

example

Purple, list icon

quote

cite

Gray, quote icon

Custom Callouts (CSS)

LHOST_PH_6

Lists

Unordered Lists

LHOST_PH_7

Code

Inline Code

__LHOST_PH_8__javascript // Syntax highlighted code block function hello() { console.log("Hello, world!"); } __LHOST_PH_9__python

Python example

def greet(name): print(f"Hello, {name}!") LHOST_PH_10

Nesting Code Blocks

Use more backticks or tildes for the outer block:

__LHOST_PH_11__js console.log("Hello") LHOST_PH_12

Using Pipes in Tables

Escape pipes with backslash:

LHOST_PH_13

Math (LaTeX)

Inline Math

This is inline math: $e^{i\pi} + 1 = 0$

Block Math

__LHOST_PH_14__mermaid graph TD A[Start] --> B{Decision} B -->|Yes| C[Do this] B -->|No| D[Do that] C --> E[End] D --> E __LHOST_PH_15__mermaid sequenceDiagram Alice->>Bob: Hello Bob Bob-->>Alice: Hi Alice __LHOST_PH_16__mermaid graph TD A[Biology] B[Chemistry] A --> B class A,B internal-link; LHOST_PH_17

Properties (Frontmatter)

Properties use YAML frontmatter at the start of a note:

LHOST_PH_18

Property Types

Type

Example

Text

title: My Title

Number

rating: 4.5

Checkbox

completed: true

Date

date: 2024-01-15

Date & Time

due: 2024-01-15T14:30:00

List

tags: [one, two] or YAML list

Links

related: "[[Other Note]]"

Default Properties

tags - Note tags
aliases - Alternative names for the note
cssclasses - CSS classes applied to the note

HTML Content

Obsidian supports HTML within Markdown:

__LHOST_PH_20__python def process_data(items): return sorted(items, key=lambda x: x.priority) ## Architecturemermaid graph LR A[Input] --> B[Process] B --> C[Output] B --> D[Cache]


## Related Documents

- ![[Meeting Notes 2024-01-10#Decisions]]
- [[Budget Allocation|Budget]]
- [[Team Members]]

## References

For more details, see the official documentation[^1].

[^1]: https://example.com/docs

%%
Internal notes:
- Review with team on Friday
- Consider alternative approaches
%%

obsidian-markdown

Obsidian Markdown